Daniel Ricciardo is the first person to talk to the camera on the first-ever episode of Drive to Survive, and from that moment on he would be framed as a world champion in-waiting by the docuseries. His goofball charm would captivate F1 agnostics as the show shot to relevance during the pandemic, and a whole new audience for the sport watched along as his career zigged and zagged from team to team, hopeful contender to F1 expat — and finally, last season, to a driver without options left, when he was unceremoniously (and awkwardly) dropped by the Racing Bulls before the U.S. GP last all.
And even though the soon-to-arrive seventh season of Drive to Survive (reaching Netflix on March 7) has had plenty of time to reckon with the loss of its favorite character, the show — like Red Bull last September, doesn't quite know what to do with the moment.
